There has only been a surface change towards feminism - the misogynistic attitudes beneath remain, and I suspect it may be several centuries before they depart for good. Given that, I don't think every societal change - especially every negative societal change - in the last 50 years can be blamed on feminism. We don't even have a national ERA, and the backlash against the few battles we've won is immense. Given that, what has occured as a drect result of feminism - that is to say, a semblance of compassion beginning to be given to battered wives and rape victims, a few options for women whove been abandoned with children by their husbands, a bit of recourse for women who are treated like dirt in the workplace, the opening of higher education to women - I can't possibly see as a bad thing. The few small excesses have been short-lived and trumpeted totall out of proportion to their effect on society.
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Date: 2004-04-10 03:09 pm (UTC)Given that, what has occured as a drect result of feminism - that is to say, a semblance of compassion beginning to be given to battered wives and rape victims, a few options for women whove been abandoned with children by their husbands, a bit of recourse for women who are treated like dirt in the workplace, the opening of higher education to women - I can't possibly see as a bad thing. The few small excesses have been short-lived and trumpeted totall out of proportion to their effect on society.